Art and Culture

They were called Pilobolus Dance Theatre, or simply Pilobolus. On the mid-1990s night that I first saw them—one of the best nights I’d ever had in a theater—the company was in its twenty-fifth season and already long praised for its wit,…
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Salman Rushdie has said that his first thought upon seeing the man who would stab him on stage in August 2022 was: “So it’s you. Here you are.”“It felt like something coming out of the distant past and trying to drag me back in time, if…
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Yoni Bokser is a lifelong New Yorker who has worked in government, politics, policy and economic development at the city, state, and international levels. At Empire State Development, his role is to make New York State the best place to…
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On an otherwise uneventful Friday evening, about 95 million people watched a white Ford Bronco slowly driving down the 5 freeway.  The driver of the car, of course, was O.J. Simpson, the NFL star turned actor and TV…
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Miami City Ballet management has begun an aggressive, coordinated union-busting campaign against their dancers, the majority of whom are fighting to unionize. Unsurprisingly, the Company’s…
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NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Philharmonic will give five concerts in China this summer in what it says will be first visit to the mainland by a U.S. orchestra since 2019.Outgoing music director…
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Even well-established comedians and other artists say that the costs, particularly for housing (“pure greed”), have soared to prohibitive levels, especially for those just starting out. Fringe officials say they’re…
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“Since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, signaling a mighty leap forward in robots’ and artificial intelligence’s ability to imitate human interaction, we’ve craved a new generation of art to help us understand our…
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During the years leading up to his death in a Russian prison, Aleksei A. Navalny, the Russian opposition leader, was writing a memoir about his life and work as a pro-democracy activist.Titled “Patriot,” the memoir will be published in…
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